For this mornings meeting. This is a sample email, please provide feedback. Gwen Nichols-White Program Manager Open Grid Forum Office: 312-895-5930 Mobile: 630-337-3176 Fax: 312-895-5935 email: gnwhite@ggf.org -----Original Message----- From: Fogel, Robert [mailto:robert.fogel@intel.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:43 AM To: gnwhite@ggf.org; bcohen@bway.net; Craig Lee Subject: GGF18 Enterprise/Standards Summit Here is the e-mail that I want to send to targeted vendors and EUs to get participation at GGF18 VAF/VOC sessions: -----------------------------<start email>-------------------------------------------------------- If the OGF standards direction and priorities is important to you, then make certain to attend the following two GGF18 sessions: 1) Enterprise/Standards Rollup Summit #1 Wednesday September 13, 2006 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM COMM31 Room 147A 2) Enterprise/Standards Alignment Summit #2 Thursday September 14, 2006 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM COMM34 Room 147A In both sessions, vendors & end-users will have the opportunity to directly and openly interact with key representatives from the OGF standards development effort to express concerns, communicate priorities and ask questions about the overall state and direction of the OGF standards development effort. The primary intension of these sessions is to ensure that the standards produced by OGF are representative of what end-users want, as well as comprehend vendor's issues and concerns in adopting those standards. 1) The "VOC/VAF Requirements Roll-up" session will have two main parts: 1) first OGF standards representatives will present the current OGF standards roadmap and identify what requirements are being comprehended in the roadmap. 2) Vendors & end-users will have the opportunity to express their own requirements and use cases as well as expectations they have for the OGF standards development effort. 2) The second session, "Grid Requirements/Standards Summit", is a workshop with OGF standards representatives to determine the gap between the current standards roadmap and the priorities & the requirements expressed by vendors & end-users in the first session, "VOC/VAF Requirements Roll-up". The expected outcome of this session is a list of clearly identified areas of alignment as well as areas of misalignment, and a plan for OGF standards effort to collaborate with vendors and end users to close the alignment gap. GGF18 Full Program: http://www.gridworld.com/live/42/events/42WDC06A/conference/CC902048 -----------------------------<end email>-------------------------------------------------------- Potential Target vendors: Platform Computing, IBM, HP, DataSynapse, MS, Oracle, SAS, SAP, BEA, UD, Sun, Intel, Gemstone, Univa, Gigaspaces, Sybase, Tangosol, GridXpert, Cassatt, Dell, Enigmatec, Evident, others TBD Potential Target EUs: John Hurley (Boeing), Brooklin Gore (Micron), Elwood Coslett (Intel), Novartis, J&J, Google, Synopsys, British Telecom, Cadence, CSC, Fannie Mae, Ford, France Telecom, JPMC, Merrill Lynch, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Co., RIKEN, Wachovia -----------------------------<ACTIONS>---------------------------------- ---------------------- Expectation for the two VAF/VOC sessions above: 1) Standards roadmap of key deliverables/capabilities that will be available in what timeframe 2) Identification of key use cases and/or requirements that are comprehended by the Standards roadmap in what timeframe 3) Standards/TSC representation (including Dave Snelling) for both sessions. NOTE: I'd like to have the first two items above available at least one week (9/1) before GGF18 for vendor & EU participants to review, and two weeks (8/21) before GGF18 in order for all of us to review. I'm also going to ask vendor & EU participants to come-up with pre-primed list of issues and concerns going into GGF18. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------- Please provide feedback as soon as possible. Thank you.